Question

Hello, I am writing a Python program that displays weather information by importing Beautiful Soup and the Requests modules, and using a process called web scraping.

Everything else displays correctly when I call it to the print()function, except for the elevation; when I print it out, I only get "Elev: " - But I only need the number for elevation (in feet), not the Elev: or any other text/or tags before it. e.x.is: instead of the print function displaying "Elev: 2592ft" - I get "Elev: " - when print(weatherStationEle) is called.

Here is what I have written so far:

import bs4, requests

try:
url = 'https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?'
latAndLon = 'lat=46.8837&lon=-102.7817'
res = requests.get(url + latAndLon)
res.raise_for_status()
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')
wStation = soup.select('#current-conditions > div.panel-heading > div > h2')
cTemp = soup.select('#current_conditions-summary > p.myforecast-current-lrg')
cConditions = soup.select('#current_conditions-summary > p.myforecast-current')
Ele = soup.select('#current-conditions > div.panel-heading > div > span > b:nth-child(3)')
WeatherStationN = wStation[0].text
currentT = cTemp[0].text
cCond = cConditions[0].text
weatherStationEle = Ele[0].text
print(WeatherStationN)
print(currentT)
print(cCond)
print(weatherStationEle)
  
except Exception as ex:
# Print out any error messages
print('An error occurred')

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

EXPLANATION :

Hi, direct come to the point, in the variable Ele,

Ele = soup.select('#current-conditions > div.panel-heading > div > span > b:nth-child(3)')

you are using E[0].text , so it will give text bounded between the <b> tag so here only, <b> this text will be given </b>, but height 2592ft is present just after closing tag </b>, so it was only fetching <b>Ele :

</b> and not the 2592ft.

Thus what i did is took Ele variable with whole span tag and not going into b,

like Ele = soup.select('#current-conditions > div.panel-heading > div > span')

then it used .contents[] function and iterated to get the desired output.

since it was the last one so i directly used Ele[0].contents[-1] ,

CODE:

import bs4
import requests

try:
    url = 'https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?'
    latAndLon = 'lat=46.8837&lon=-102.7817'
    res = requests.get(url + latAndLon)
    res.raise_for_status()
    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')
    wStation = soup.select('#current-conditions > div.panel-heading > div > h2')
    cTemp = soup.select('#current_conditions-summary > p.myforecast-current-lrg')
    cConditions = soup.select('#current_conditions-summary > p.myforecast-current')
    Ele = soup.select('#current-conditions > div.panel-heading > div > span ')
    WeatherStationN = wStation[0].text
    currentT = cTemp[0].text
    cCond = cConditions[0].text
    weatherStationEle = Ele[0].contents[-1]     # -1 for the last one i.e., 2592ft
    print(WeatherStationN)
    print(currentT)
    print(cCond)
    print(weatherStationEle)

except Exception as ex:
    print('An error occurred')

OUTPUT :

THANK YOU....!!